Podcast: Rahsaan Hall of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights on the aftermath of Ferguson

In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice has called on elected officials, law enforcement, the legal community and the public at large to make sure the 18-year-old did not die in vain.

Brown, who was African American, was shot and killed by a local police officer on Aug. 9.

Rahsaan D. Hall – deputy director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice in Boston – says his organization has recommended the implementation of a number of reforms.

In today’s podcast, Hall discusses a number of those proposals, including the creation of an independent Department of Justice-led investigation into the shooting, the universal use of dash cameras in police vehicles and the elimination of “broken windows” policing policies.

“One of the other hats that I wear [in addition to being a lawyer] is that I’m an ordained minister, and so the other Sunday I was preaching, and there was no way in good conscience that I could not bring a message that related to what everyone was thinking about, talking about it and experiencing, and certainly as a civil rights advocate, the conversation in the community is about how do we prevent this from continuing to happen in our community,” says Hall.